genus Ocimum

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

genus Ocimum - basil Ocimumasterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubsfamily Labiatae, family Lamiaceae, Labiatae, Lamiaceae, mint family - a large family of aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including mint; thyme; sage; rosemarybasil - any of several Old World tropical aromatic annual or perennial herbs of the genus Ocimum